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Chief Gregory Mullen local police reported that the arrest was made during a roadblock in Shelby, which is located approx. 350 km north from the crime scene. The man was previously identified as 21-year-old Dylann Roof. Police believe he acted alone.
roof accusation of a crime Racist?
The American Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that her office is now investigating how to qualify an offense which on Wednesday night committed a 21-year-old. The Prosecutor’s Office takes into account the accusation of a crime racially motivated. Reuters notes that in this case the man carries the more severe punishment. He adds that the incident took place after months of demonstrations black community in the US, where there have repeatedly acts of violence and vandalism. The protests were caused cases of killings of African Americans by the police.
Obama: The perpetrator had easy access to weapons
– Taking into account the fact that the incident occurred in the black church, this forces the question about the dark side of our history. (…) We do not know all the details, but we know that once again innocent people were killed because the attackers have easy access to weapons – rated US President Barack Obama at a press conference.
The US president stressed that and his wife knew who was murdered in a church pastor Clemente Pinckney.
– The words that our thoughts and prayers are with them, with their families and community, do not reflect our pain, sorrow and anger that we feel. (…) Now is the time of mourning and healing wounds, but I want to be clear – at some point we will need as a country to take into account that this type of mass murder does not occur in other developed countries – said Obama.
Gun on 21st birthday
Reuters quotes Carson Cowles, who identified himself as the uncle Dylanna roof and said, he recently received a 21-year-old birthday present 45 mm caliber pistol.
– I have no words to describe what happened. No one in the family had not expected that something like this can occur – Cowles said, stressing that Roof has always been a peaceful person.
In frequented by African Americans nineteenth-century Methodist Church opened fire white male, who then fled . The crime took place on Wednesday at approx. 21 local time, which is in the chair. 3am on Thursday in Poland.
The tragic events in Charleston responded candidates for US president – effective election meeting on Wednesday in Charleston Democrat Hillary Clinton and campaigners in Charlotte, North Carolina Republican Jeb Bush. They both declared that thoughts are with the families of the victims.
The temple, in which the tragedy occurred, belongs to the historical, the oldest in the southern African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1816. Its founder, Denmark Vesey, was hanged in 1822 for trying to organize a slave uprising, and the church building burned in retaliation. The church was rebuilt in 1834.
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